Sixteen of Gujarat’s
24 districts were engulfed in the most organised armed mob attacks between
February 28 and March 1-2, 02, when most of the attacks were concentrated.
Rampaging mobs were at it until mid-March. In some parts of Ahmedabad and
Mehsana they are still on the loose.(Another three districts had sporadic
bouts). Nowhere were the mobs less that 2-3,000 most often they were more than
5-10,000. This and the fact that they were armed with swords, trishuls and
agricultural instruments that could kill; the fact that the manner of arson,
hacking and killing was chillingly similar; all suggest a carefully laid out
plan behind the attack. It is only trained cadres who can spill out in such an
organised fashion, in the thousands across the state of Gujarat within the ’72
hours it took Chief Minister Modi to bring things to normal.’

* Naroda Gaon Naroda
Pattiya: Armed mobs of 15,000
attack and kill women, children and men –over 200 lost lives; Ample evidence
of private firing with rifles by the mobs also armed with trishuls, dharias,
spears and other weapons. (Police watched)

* Naroda Fruit Market
attacked

Armed mobs of 10,000
attack the Muslim wholesalers selectively in the market

A mob entters the Old
Secretariat building in the high-security zone and burns down the offices of
the Wakf Board and the state Minority Finance Corporation.

*Sabarkantha

*Near Prantij
- three British Nationals are attacked travelling in a local taxi; one
survives; the driver is killed, two are still missing Villages across this
district are brutally targeted for four-five days.

Mobs in the
above-mentioned areas led by local leaders of the VHP and BD encircled and
cordoned of the roads and stopped all vehicles carrying milk, vegetables and
other basic food items.

*Himmatnagar: It
is reported through our sources that one young Muslim boy was allegedly shot
to death at point blank range by the Superintendent of Police in Himmatnagar.

* Ahmedabad Rural:
Dholka, Jetalpur, Ramol, Mandal.

Targeted by mobs of
not less that 3,000, armed with trishuls, swords and agricultural instruments.

March 1

*Panchmahal:

*Pandharvada: 70
people were burnt alive Pandharvada village in Khanpur taluka of Pachmahal

Six persons were
burnt alive by large mobs near Delol (Dailol) railway station located between
Kalol and Halol, about 50 km from Godhra; The victims were walking on the
highway when a mob of more than 200 people caught up with them, doused them in
kerosene and burnt them alive. Of the victims, four were women.

*Gandhinagar: Curfew
in Gandhinagar for first time in 30 yrs on March 1. Mobs moved freely in the
capital targeting specific residences and establishments of the minority
community. Superintendent of police E Radhakrishna said that the curfew had
been imposed as a precautionary measure. The incidents took place in Sector
21, Gha-2 , Gha-6, Sector 25, Sector 26 and Sector 27. Houses were set on fire
in Sector 27 while commercial establishments were vandalised in the other
areas. Residents of Sector 29, which has a sizeable number of minority
members, including businessmen and government servants, said that the violence
was unthinkable and they were afraid for the first time.

*Junagadh: Junagadh
a haven of communal harmony saw some tension errupt with a stabbing on March
1; fortunately matters were handled swiftly by the local police

*Halol: Factories
trucks set on fire ; 63 Opel Astras go up in smoke; Five units in Halol
Industrial Belt set on fire; Nine trucks carrying 63 Opel astras from the
General Motors factory in Halol are burned. Lucky A studio, owned by film
producer Sajid Nadiadwala, was also gutted .

Of the 5 unites that
were set on fire, four were plastic factories and one engineering unit. The
industrial town of Halol remained tense as only 17 policemen were on duty in
the town limits and they are unable to stop the rampaging the mobs from
targeting the factories.

*Rajkot: Rajkot
(never experienced communal violence before this) saw violence spread in
industrial areas of Ajit, Shapar-Veraval and GIDC estate. 25 small and medium
industrial units were set ablaze the Ajit industrial area alone. In the Shapar
Veraval aea units like Suraj Industrial Nazeen Industries, Polymer Packaging
and Antech Television were damaged by the mobs .

Rajkot:
City, and village Gondal. Are targeted

*Latipot: About
15 units with stocks of wooden logs , were set on fire, causing a loss of
about Rs 5 crore. In the Kevdawadi and Gundawadi areas, units like Bazuki
Industries and Kirti packaging which had large stocks of packaging material
and cardboard , were torched. Eye–witnesses say that the police deployment
was inadequate in these areas.

Violence erupts in
Mehsana, Godhra, Surat, Vadodara and Anand. Even as chief minister Modi
boasted about how "peace had returned" and made tall claims of
"90 per cent violence ebbing down," as many as 29 Muslims were
torched to death at Sardarpara village in Mehsana and over 39 people were
killed in separate incidents in Surat, Bhavnagar, Sabarkantha and Varodara.

March 2

Families from
far-flung areas in districts of of Sabarkantha, Mehsana, Banaskantha,
Panchmahal, Ahmedabad, Kheda, Baroda, Broach, Surat and Bhavnagar fled to
safer places as their houses and business centres had been destroyed in
violence by unruly mobs since February 28.The worst hit districts were
Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Sabarkantha and Panchmahal where a large number of houses
and shops belonging to minority community were set afire after ransacking and
looting of houses and shops and family members were killed during the orgy of
violence in the past five days.

March 3

* Gandhinagar: A
large number of shops, showrooms, larri-gallas and even houses
belonging to Muslims have been set on fire in all parts of the city on Feb 28,
March 1 and 2.

March 4

*Surat, Bhavnagar,
Ahmedabad, Morbi in Rajkot district. Violence spreads to the streets in
several areas, including Surat, Bhavnagar and Ahmedabad on Sunday. Police
opened fire on mobs setting fire to property and looting goods in Bhavnagar
and Surat. Morbi in Rajkot district is also engulfed in violence.

*Surat

Surat City

March 4

Police firing on
rioting mobs claimed two lives in Sabarkanta and one in Kheda while six people
were killed in other incidents of violence in Baroda, Mehsana and Dahood on
Monday.

As many as 96 bodies
of genocide victims were buried in a mass grave in the Dudheshwar graveyard
this evening; another mass grave for about 200 victims was being readied in
Sarkhej, on the outskirts of the city, for a burial tomorrow.

A big grave was dug and the bodies,
brought from the Civil Hospital morgue, lowered into it one by one. They were
victims of the Naroda Patiya and the Gulberg Society carnages. Among them were
five children, including a six-month-old baby; 46 women, including one who was
pregnant, and a handicapped man whose crutches lay by the side. 500 persons
silently watched and prayed. CM Narendra Modi driving less than a kilometre
away did not visit the graveyard.